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INTERNATIONAL COMPLICATIONS HAVE
MADE THREE POWERS EXTREMELY RESTIVE
THREE WEEKS MORE WILL DE
CIOE WHETHER FRENCH AND
BRITONS WILL BE ALLIED
AGAINST GERMANY.
WILLIAM IS A
GRAND STAND PLAYER
While He Plainly Stand* Out for War.
a Study of Condition* Show* It Will
Not Serve Well the Intereata of
Germany to Fight Now.
I.ONDON, .lan K The open ng
days of llwWl *r* troubled ones for l In*
Briiona. and this note of especial
rtixtety la not routined to them •l<m<>
but rather extend* lo and la fully
ahari d by the Krone liman and flpan
!a: via.
Tie source of ihr anxiety and Ir.ui
l'ie.l feeling i* no other perannare
11 nn william II
. While there i* not an open quo*
lion on the part of the people of
those three count tin* of William*
veracity, It la true that Iti their Inner
intiid they donhi seriously junrly
•vary thing he say*. and more parti
cttlarly one thing lie I* looked
tipon aa a aranri aland player of the
b'gheat rharaeler and hi* whint* are
rl the pyrotechnic order III* iheat
rleal declaration* are repudiated free
1y and hi* assertion that hla ehlef de
elrt i* peace la received pretty yen
•rally with an extremely rapugnar.
sa«*r.
Til** Immediate cauae of anrtlety on
the pari of Ihr Hrltlah I* perhaps
more In Ovldanet than that of the
other oountiie* though, until th.- out
toB»' of the Morrorro conference,
which occur* In three nocks is
known all Kurnpe 1* on the qoi vlrc
The pre** of f’ail* has not nought
to hide It* idea* under the bushel
but rather ha* been painfully candid
in It* a**ertlon» Thin, followinr
recent Incident*, la momentnu All
France know* only too well that the
palaver that I* smeated on publicly
by both Hide* I* but a tisane of fabri
cation In action and that t lie high
pi alar of the Hatter I* no more or
laa* than the verlett rot knowing
a* well that laat spring France and
(Jermanv were on the cttremiti ,f
the brink of wai Then It was not
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FOX 1906
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and practical biota contained
iu tbc annual i*eoca of Wood a
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Ihe kaiser who prevented Ihe war,
but rather he was s'raining al Ills
leashes and anxiety was pictured sit
over Ills face to gel at Ihe smaller
country. The present complication
it* anxieties came, beyond doubt
in rough the unofficial note received
from l.oid l.ansdownc that If Ger
many attacked France or precipitated
h war Over Ihe affairs of Morroceo
Britain would consider the light of the
French her own fight, and her hand
would be laid as heavily as possi
ble on Ihe shoulder of someone about
ihe size of William II Hence the
present anxiety ninogg the Briton's
On the other hand iliefr is probahli
a great ileal of bluff alsiut (he Kaiser,
it. fact it very gretti deal \ sliitiv of
bis situation show - 100 plalnli that
neither ihe dyuasllc or commercial
interests of Germany would he
li.rlhered In war Just si litis lime A
further factor is lhai exaggerated
!i!ch of the emperor of his personal
Prerogative anti his known high hii
ger over lie diplomatic blunders
iKinmltteil In I’rlnre Von Buelow
which resulted in drawing l.ondon
end Fails fat more closely together
than Dcleasse ever hinted or dreant
id of getting i host countries In
Isct this latter ate figures in he In
ternallonal situation which are not
conducive lo rest fulness of th t'dls
comfiture to which Germany Is ties
luted SI Alger Iras
To Soothe a Burn.
To relieve pain after a burn a com
•
press of spirits of wine Is most use
fill Cover the burned pari with wild
ding, pour the spirits over this nml
carefully wrap Ihe whole with a piece
of waterproof material Care must ho
taken In using the spirits, ns It is
very inflammable
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Rote Cogh lan, In "The Duke of Kll
llcrankle" Monday, the Bth.
Creeton Clark, In Monaieur Beaucalre"
—Tueaday, the 9th.
"Robin Hood"—Thuroday, the 11th.
Moving Pictures—Saturday, the 13th.
Rose Coghlan.
"The Duke of Xilllcrankle,” In
which Miss Hum Coghlan will Ik- seen
al the Grand next Monday, January
Kth, Is by Captain Robert Marshall,
the author of "Hlh Exrelleucy the
Governor" and "Heronil In Command,”
and wax ahoui the only play that en
livened the gloom of the past ttdo sea
sous In l/ondnn The Mm* might he
said In connection with Its phenom
onal run at the Km pi re theatre in
New York last season. At. a rule this
fashionable playhouse was crowded .
nightly with |t» charaeterlatlc audt-1
ence which relished to the utmost
the refined and harmless cynicism of
the lines, anil the fantastic absurdity
of the storv, above all the exquisitely
delicate finish and the mirth provok 1
tug work of the excellent company.
The story la of mediaeval abduction i
in which a modern, nay, an ultra mod ,
ern Scotch duke makes away with
his unwilling lady love, with all the'
decision. If none of the bravery of I
young igwhlnvar allures her to a j
mediaeval mountain lastness and shuts
her up with hint (chaperoned I until
she is made to love hint Captain
Marshall has made his story most
creditable. Ills duke Is a clever lord
ling adleted lo fads and spoiled by
always having his whims more than
gratified. I.adv Henrietta acorns his'
still for the excellent reason that lie
hi a spoiled youngster, berating hint
with the fact that all his life girls
have been eager lo throw themselves
a- hlr head. She taunts him about
his fnds and the taunts prove her
undoing. He determines to carry one
through to the end. the fad of marry
ing her. He Induces a friend to send
a lying telegram summoning her to
(lie slek bed of sn aunt In the high
lands, and Hun bribes a railway guard
to pul her In'o a carriage that lakes
her not lo Hie aunt, hut to the castle
of Kllllrrankle on the top of a ntoun
lain, where he shuts her in behind '
alone and Iron Ills friend is In love
with a rich widow, who has also scorn
ed his suit and it Is a part of the
unherolc compact that she Is to lie
the chaperone To complicate matters
the widow ami I.adv Henrietta are
at sword iHditta. It is tint a merry ,
parti ihat gathers at supper in the
highlands. The I ealtlshness of the
woman to woman has been a favorite
material for comedy since females
hate pis \ed themselves on the stage
bill not even Moliere anil Sheridan
hate extracted more ntlrth from such
encounters than Captain Marshall gets
out of his second act Repartee fid 1
lows repartee and keeps the audience
In gurgles of exquisite laughter. Hu
inanely and artistically speaking the
crisis of the plai lays In the mo
ments in which the two hcleaguretl
women fall beneath the charms of
their captors. Captain Marshall Is a
true son of (Allbert 111 his wit and Ills
sense of the politely absurd. The
scene in which the women try to in
dure the craven Henry Hit Wclby lo
hurl himself out of the nstle and Into
the lop of a tall pine far below tile
walls and the scrupulous reason with
w lili h he argues the point Is In the
bosk manner of the author of "Kit
gaged ." 111 all of Miss Coghlnns
brilliant career ahe has never hud it
part so admirably fitted to her lal i
cuts as in this charming comedy.
Seats on sale Saturday. January full
Prices, $1 nit, 11, Tru\ suc and 2gr.
Creator! Clarke.
"The play that possesses literary
merit not only will live longer on tin
library shelves than tin one that dues.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD.
FROM OPERA AND BURLESQUE
TO THE LEGITIMATE.
UIMMJ <
«»TO OTTO SMJKgST- CW
(By Kay Templeton.)
Years of appearing In elaborate cos
tumes after years of listening to peo
ple Inquiring why I did nyt play a
"straight" part, I have at last simpli
fied the costumes and taken up the
"siralght" part.
One critic upon my appearance in
the part inquired incredulously, "Is
this really Kay Templeton?" A few
days later, when I appeared In Chi
cago al a special performance In the
Hunter Brown makeup, nobody recog
nized me until I commenced to sing.
Ho much for one's reputation for
versatility. And yet I have been ask
ed to appear as Carmen! Oh. this
curse of versatility!
To go back to the "straight" part.
When George Cohan first read his
play to me. "Forty-Five Minutes from
Broadway," I liked it. Then I thought
of my friends and hesitated. Then I
decided to go ahead .and it was pro
duced.
I have been accustomed to spend
ing several hundred dollars on a sin
gle stage gown, yet my entire ward
robe for this play cost only fifty dol
lars. And Chicago could not get
enough of the play. It lakes a hit of
courage for a woman accustomed to
appenr in Ihe sumptuous, flambouyant
costumes of Broadway musical shows
to appear In the simple livery of a
housemaid, hut I have done It.
On the first night In Chicago, when
I had to strap tp my feet a pair of
number "tens,' 1 I hesitated again. But
I have persevered in the nightly ad
justment of these fundamentals of the
“straight" part. Home nights when I
come off I look at them and gasp, and
wonder If they are really mine. There's
not only enough for me, hut for a fam
ily. with something left over for a
few longshoremen Still, it is all for
art. and I love my art. VVe all love
oiir art. '
not, hot, other conditions being equal,
il will be the more valuable as a
mere piece of theatrical property,” re
cently said Creston Clarke, the distin
guished star whose tour itt Booth
Tarkington's splendidly written com
edy, "Beaucaire," Is one of the most
successful of the young century.
’’Often the saying Is heard that a
piny that reads well' will not ’act
well.' Set down as a general proposi
tion this statement Is absurdly fallaci
ous If It were true we would have no
great dramatic classics: ’Hamlet'
would be unactable. As You I,lke 1C
would lie Impossible. ‘Romeo and
Juliet' absurd. 'The School for Scan
dal' out of the question and Hhe
Stoops to Conquer' preposterous. All,
these and dozens of others 'read well'
and, If ihe expression may he used,
time and experience have proved that
they even 'act better.’
"To speak commercially, the plain
truth of the matter Is that the literary
play* have been the ones to he pre
sented the ofteneat and which have
drawn the most money. Take the most
successful unllterary play .one that has
had Its several hundred nights' run
In New York or I/ondon, Bnd com
pare Its career with that of 'The Mer
chant of Venice' or 'The Rivals’ or
'KausC for Instance. The former may
have lasted three or four seasons and
may have bten seen by some tens of
thousands of people, but what is that
to the scores of years the latter have
lived and the hundreds of thousands
v.h'ch have enjoyed them. What la
more, the unllterary play, after Its few
short years. Is never heard of again,
bit the classics will be famous and
derive profit for decades or centuries.
"My advice to aspiring dramatists
is to give their plays literary value
hi well as dramatic significance and
Integrity. Do not slight either for
the other. Both are essential."
At the Grand Tuesday, January !>th.
Seats on sale Monday. January Bth.
Prices. $1.50, tl, 75c. 50c and 25c.
Robin Hood.
The Columbia Htatc says of "Robin
Hood” to be given here next Thurs
day evening:
"I never knew the Bostonians to
sing 'Robin H<x>d" any belter than
did the company which was here
Christmas day." That remark, made
to Manager Hrown yesterday by a
theatre patron of good taste, seems to
express the sentiments of a great
many people In Columbia. The com
pany sent out by the Aborn Produc
tion company was not hooked until
laic in the season and there was more
or less speculation as to tht ability of
this company to handle the scores of
Reginald DeKoven's greatesi success
and most tuneful opera.
But at the matinee performanee all
doubts were set at rest, and It soon
became known over the city that while
this company might not he the "Bos
tonians" it could sing "Robin HTfori”
successfully. There was not a large
crowd at the matinee, but the company
Bang with such a willingness that the
box office sales for ihe night jumped
and at the evening performance the
house was very respectable in size,
considering the faei that it was Christ
mas night.
And the principals were all good,
exceptionally so. Perhaps that is the
pleasing part of the performance.
While there may lie no stars of inter
national reputation as singers, yet all
of the principals sing and art well and
there Is a plane of excellence which is
unmarred by ihe superior elevations
whose shadows would darken the
lower lines in Ihe broken plane. It
can be said of each prlnripal that il
would be difficult to Improve upon
the part unless an all-star east should
lie selected, and this is about as near
all-star as could be found.
The comedy parts were in the hands
of Mr. Heck as the sheriff of Notting
ham; Mr. Campbell Donald as the de
generate Guy of Gishourne and pre
tending Earl of Huntingdon: and Mr.
Hageman as Kriar Tuck. The "Bos
tonians" never had cleverer people
than these in the parts and the spire
of their fun —not all in Ihe lines writ
ten by Harry B Hmlth gave a fine
flavor to the entire feast of music and
of the poetry of motion. The produc
tion is ample, each of the three arts
being well staged and the costumes be
ing very well stilted to a company pre
senting sueh a high class production.
The chorus is large, well gowned and
sings well.
"Robin Hood" in one of those tune
fu! stories which can never lose Its
power lo entertain, even in multiplic
ity of repetition, and if the Messrs.
Aborh will return the same company
next season with the charming Miss
Brewster, with Mr. Blake and with
Miss Houston and the other singers,
the "S. R O.” sign will be hung out.
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Mistakes of Authors
0
THE SOMETIMES BLUNDERING JOURNALIST HAS PRECEDENT
AMONG THE IMMORTALS.
There are a grpat. many people—
and not necessarily Ignorant ones
either —who firmly believe that every
thing they see in print is necessarily
the truth. Because a certain thing Is
In the paper, it must necessarily be
so. and to see a certain statement in
a book is to establish it as a fact
forever.
As a matter of fact, there are no
set of people in the world who make
a greater number of mistakes than
writers. They must necessarily have
great and varied knowledge in order
to be at all successful, but there is
no man or woman living who can com
bine a thorough acquaintance with all
the sciences and the ologies. to say
nothing of history and geography,
with rare skill as a weaver of fiction.
In this connection It Is interesting to
note that some of the greatest blun
ders ever made by writers are those
of men who have stood supreme as
world-famous novelists or poets. Many
of the slips of the pen of these august
ones have been complied from time
to time, and when brought together
they form quite an array of evidence
rgiiinst the accuracy of the man who
wields Ihe pen.
Robert lands Stevenson has found
Victor Hugo particularly careless, and
in one of his essays says that in tbe
great Frenchman's work he has found
so many blunders as to "make us won
der If there are neither proof-sheets
nor judicious friends in the whole of
France, and affect us sometimes with
a sickening uneasiness as to what
may lie our own exploits when we
touch upon foreign countries and for
eign tongues." He gops on to call
especial attention to the "first of the
fourth." the statement that “laird"
in Scotland is the same title as "!,ord"
in England, and to the remarkable as
sertion in that the sloop disappeared
over the horizon and the head (of
tlut'suieide Gllliat l under the water at
throne and the same moment.
A certain youthful writer was great
ly mortified when his attention was
eatled to the fact that In one of his
short stories he had had the bishop
of the English church confirming n
class of young people put his right
hand on the head of a girl and the
I* ft hand on the head of a boy at one
anti the same time; hut some consola
tion .might have been afforded the
youthful axplrant for literary honor
by the fact that no lens a personage
than Dickens made even more egreg!-
ous blunders. Thai master novelist
pul the new moon in the east in the
evening, and had Squeers' unfortunate
boys hoe turnips in the depth of win
ter.
And such blunders are, in reality,
alomst as numerous as are authors, as
is shown by a collection of literary
absurdities recently made for a popu
lar weekly.
Mr. Pott Rldgo. in ."Dost Property."
makes one of his characters deposit
nlnepence in the Post Office Savings
hank, forgetting, for the moment, that
only even shillings will be accepted:
and in another book has written of
cricket, in which there were "cuts"
and "drives" to leg. Sir Canon Doyle,
Ilf one of his best Sherlock Holmes
stories, makes a scheming lawyer
draw up a will in favor of himself—a
proceeding which would make the
document invalid.
The late John Hollingsheatl. in "The
Story of Leicester Square.” perpetrat
ed a glorious bull, writing: "When
Lord Mohun was killed as he was liv
ing in Macclesfield Mouse. Gerard
Soho, at the back of Leicester
House, a site now occupied by the de
funct Pelican club." Even Sir Walter
Stott made blunders, and in his tine
: ul'atl of "Voting Lochlnvar" he has
this passage:
So light to the croup the fair lady he
swung,
So light to 'he saddle before her he
sprung
which is a feat of horsemanship ut
terly Impossible.
More amusing still is a blunder inno
cently committ ;d by Defoe, who
makes Robinson Crusoe till his pock
ets with biscuits while in a state of
nudity! Shak-speare made ships cast
anchor by some seaport of Bohemia.
"OuiJa.” in "Sb.mt ' equipped a vi dir.
yv : tn keys. Rider Haggard, in "King
Solomon's Mines.' described an eclipse
of he new moon —a slip over which he
himself must have had a hearty laugh
before now. Even Kipling has been
caught napping, for. with all his ex
tensive knowledge of military life, he
has written about white recruits at
squad drill in India, where are none
but trained men. and In another of his
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books he decorates a corporal with a
sash, forgettttng that this a distinc
tion to whirl] no non-commissioned
officer below the rank of sergeant is
entitled. To quote a better-known
instance, Mr. Hall Caine, to the
amaz.ement of doctors and nurses,
placed the scene of a hospital dance
in an operating theatre. It. has been
salt] that he might just as well have
spoken of a football match in a sentry
box.
To the credit of our present-day
writers be It said, they are making
a determined effort to be accurate in
a manner that shows that romance
and realism are not, even in the
prosaic twentieth century hopelessly
asunder.
Meredith Nicholson, in writing "The
House of a Thousand Candles." the
scene of which is laid on the shores
of a lake in northern Indiana, did nos
scorn to borrow in a few instances
tbe methods of the realist, though hit
stoiy, by almost every tes;. Is pu-.>
romance. For exainp'e, he put snov
on the ground at Cincinnati on Christ
mas Eve, 1901. In revising his manu
senpt it occurred to him that some
critic might question this statement,
so he wrote to the United States
weather forecaster at Cincinnati nud
askcl for ihe official record in the
matter. The forecaster replied I hat
“there was mild thawing weather here
with a light rain; no snow on Ihe
ground, and temperature ranging from
34.8 degrees to 50 degrees.” So the
author at once changed his weather to
conform to history.
This would seem to he a small mat
ter. but It is significant as showing
the rareful methods now in vogue
among novelists, the practice of which
in Journalism also is the reason why,
there are not daily made a great ei*
number of blunders to shake the faith
of those who believe in Ihe infallibil
ity of the newspapers.
HALL OF FAME FOR WOMEN.
W. H. Condon Preparing Bill For
Present Congress.
i A national hall of fame to be de
voted exclusively to statues of women
is contemplated in a bill which WII
i liant H. Condon of Chicago, author of
1 "The Life of General Shields." is pre
paring and which will he introduced
at the present session of congress,
says the Chicago Inter Ocean. Sena
tor Cullorn will be requested to intro
duce the bill In the senate and probab
ly Congressman Mann in the Jiouse.
The hill, if passed, will carry nn ap
propriation of 1100,000, which would
be used in providing a site and a suita
ble building. A board of five directors
to be named hy the president Is pro
vided. Mr. Condon's plants to enlist
I the support of all the clubwomen of
Chicago. A meeting of ibo president*
and secretaries of such oluhs is being
arranged for at the Palmer House to
outline the campaign to be made in
Washington.
"We have a hall of fame for men,
and it Is proper." said Mr. Condon
the other night. "\Vhy should we not
honor the noble women who have so
i blessed the race? The national temple
proposed In this bill would be the on
ly one of its kind in the world. Europe
has nothing that would equal it. And
I don't believe there is a member of
congress with so little chivalry in
him as to oppose the comparatively
Ismail appropriation.”
Should the project be carried to
I completion each slate would be en
titled to two statues in the national
pantheon.
Mr. Condon has had considerable ex
, perlence with such legislation and has
been usually successful. He served
in the Illinois legislature and secured
Ihe passage of the hill appropriation
$30.00 to complete the Douglas monu
ment in Chicago. He also wrote the
bill providing the appropriation for the
statue of Prances Willard which Illi
nois placed in the Statuary hall at.
Washington. He also secured the ap
propriation for the Shields statue
which Illinois gave to the nation.
Academy.
Academy originally meant a garden
or grove in a suberb of Athens, where
schools of philosophy met and con
versed.
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